Tajiks blame U.S. bureaucracy for delay evacuating Afghan pilots

DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajik officials blamed U.S. bureaucracy on Wednesday for a near three-month delay in evacuating U.S.-trained Afghan pilots, who had flown their aircraft to Tajikistan to escape the…

Exclusive-U.S. hopes to soon relocate Afghan pilots who fled to Tajikistan, official says

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States hopes to soon relocate around 150 U.S.-trained Afghan Air Force pilots and other personnel detained in Tajikistan for more than two…

Exclusive-Echoes, uncertainty as Afghan pilots await U.S. help in Tajikistan

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S.-trained Afghan pilot was talking to Reuters on a smuggled cellphone from Tajikistan, where he is being held, when something strange happened -…

Afghan pilots start leaving Uzbekistan for UAE, despite Taliban pressure-source

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S.-trained Afghan pilots and other personnel held in an Uzbek camp for about a month began leaving the country on Sunday, one of the pilots…

Exclusive-‘They’ll kill us’ – Afghan pilots held at Uzbek camp fear deadly homecoming

By Phil Stewart (Reuters) - The U.S.-trained Afghan pilots and others held at a camp in Uzbekistan already feared being sent back to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. So it was little comfort…